Unholy Trinity

No less than three of the British patriot's most hated enemies have conjoined in legalistic vexatiousness, in the form of a domestic abuse survivor who is victimising the Ministry of Justice over its ruling in her child custody case. She was trying to enforce an agreed arrangement which her ex-partner had breached by limiting her access to their child; the Ministry ruled that since the child wasn't living with her but was under the protection of her alcohol-dependent, abusive ex-partner, the child was not her dependent. Therefore the circumstance which caused her need for legal aid was the reason that she did not qualify for legal aid; which seems about as tidy as one could hope for. Nevertheless, the president of the Law Society was unworldly enough to state that it "seems unlikely that Parliament could have intended such an outcome," even in the case of a legel aid claimant who also happens to be a healthcare trainee and a single mother.